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Last night’s Film Fest outing was quite a letdown with the (Japanese) documentary lacking English subtitles - people were walking out within the first ten minutes.  We walked out after fifteen minutes!  Went to query the door staff, because a_x had taken precautions to ask about subtitles before we decided to catch the movie, and they said that there’d been a mistake.  At this point it was 10.30pm, they said it would take half an hour to bring in the replacement film with subtitles, and it was an 80 minute film. Obviously we left.  Having work in the morning and everything (boo).

Other than that it was a still nice night/outing, and being able to see the inside of the National Museum was breathtaking.  Sean’s internship company was the one who did up the new museum, I believe, so it was nice to finally see it from the inside after inspecting it with him from the outside.  The blend of modern and classical is strange but it works - I commented on how a glass and concrete open-air stairway had been built next to the facade of the old museum, and that conjunction of old and new should’ve looked stranger that it did, but somehow it worked out all right.  The best part was the inside, where the original facade is reflected in a massive curved glass wall.  Absolutely gorgeous.  Best part that it wasn’t a mirrored wall, just glass, so the reflection is sort of shimmery and indistinct, like a reflection in the water.  Swoon.